Hi gbwien,

The program is populating the $line variable progressively. First with the MSISDN, and then with the data from the CF lines.

When the program meets a new MSISDN line, it means that we are starting to process a new record block; we need to print out everything that has been stored in $line and reinitialize $line for the next record block. However, we don't want to print $line the first time (because we haven't started yet to populate it).

There is a capture using ([\w-]+?-(?:NONE|\d+)). I simply don't need the nested parentheses (?:NONE|\d+) to capture anything, there are there just to clarify what the alternative match should be (either NONE or a sequence of digits).

As for curlies in the s/// operator, I am using them because the substitution strings contain slashes that would be interpreted as part of the substitution operator.

Using s{...}{...} instead of s/.../.../ makes it possible to avoid having to escape the / in the sustitution strings.

In reply to Re^7: Create output from Perl hash by Laurent_R
in thread Create output from Perl hash by gbwien

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